Rutherford's alpha-scattering experiment demonstrated the existence of a small, dense, positively charged region at the center of the atom, which he called the nucleus.
Rutherford’s α-particle scattering experiment was responsible for the discovery of:
Asked in UPSC Geoscientist 2021 · UPSC NDA 1 2017 · Topic: Nuclear Physics (Basic properties of nuclei: size, shape, charge, mass, spin, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments.)
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